[Xastir-dev] Reminder: Stable release very soon

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:04:08AM -0800, a Mr. Richard Feyler of Fort Lee, New Jersey <archer at eskimo.com> writes 'Dear Rosanne Rosannadanna':
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> > >
> > > > The answer is if you want GDAL and geotiff with proj support it appears
> > > > you *must* build GDAL against your installed (proj-supporting) libtiff and
> > > > geotiff.
> > >
> > > With a linker that ignores library ordering, yes.
> >
> > The implied subtext was "on MacOS"; Sorry;-)
> >
> > > I wonder if there's anywhere you can register a complaint regarding
> > > the linker in MacOSX?
> >
> > Probably. But I don't think it's worth worrying about: building against
> > external libgeotiff should be done anyway, the one in GDAL bitrots, and
> > I'd rather have libproj support in GDAL.
> >
> > For that matter, I always build the incode epsg version of libgeotiff to
> > avoid the need to drag lots of files around with me, and you can't do that
> > with GDAL directly.
> 
> Perhaps you should write some of the install procedure up for those
> pieces in order to help the rest of us.  No hurry, but over time
> more people may be using GDAL with Xastir.
> 
> Another slightly different topic:  For OGR support I was using the
> CVS version of GDAL.  Some people can't use the CVS version if they
> are using GDAL for other purposes on their machine (like GRASS) and
> must use a released version of GDAL.  You can't have two versions of
> GDAL on one machine.

AFAICT, CVS GDAL works fine with GRASS, but you have to rebuild GRASS.
That can be a PITA because the build process is so, um, icky, but it
isn't a showstopper, just a showdelayer.

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